From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 13:16:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01540 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 May 1995 13:16:22 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA01531 ; Sat, 27 May 1995 13:16:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199505272016.NAA01531@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Paul Browning cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tape Drive Woes In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 95 16:25:09 EDT." <9505261625.aa25042@metnet.metnet.epflbalto.org> Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 13:16:17 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I have an Adaptec 284x local bus SCSI card with one device attached: >an Exabyte FS1G tape drive. When booting the system, BSD tells me >that the card is device st0 and the tape drive is device 0 on the card. >It shows my tape drive as having density code 0x92. > >Whenever I do a "mt status", I get the following: >st0:Cannot set selected mode 7:unknown tape drive type > >A "mt rewind" rewinds the tape, but I get the following: >st0: cannot set selected mode > >Is there somewhere that I need to set parameters for my tape drive, or am I >doomed with incompatible hardware? > I think this is because mt just doesn't believe that a type 7 device is allowed. I'm sure that if you modify the mt source to allow setting to type 7 or identifying type 7 devices, everything will work fine. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Paul Browning paulb@metnet.epflbalto.org | >| | >| "Modems are my life....." "O.J. who?" | >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================